After the surprising dying of his spouse, Audrey, Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, attempting to reassemble the shattered items of his lifestyles.

Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, unearths solace within the origami she meticulously folds. but if she meets Jonah, her conscientiously developed defences threaten to fall.

Milly, a toddler speedy to snicker, freely roams Kew, discovering attractiveness far and wide she is going. yet the place is her mom and the place does she cross while the gardens are closed?

Harry's objective is to avoid wasting crops from extinction. Quiet and enigmatic, he longs for anything – or an individual – who will root him extra firmly to the earth.

Audrey hyperlinks those strangers jointly. because the secret of her dying unravels, the characters trip during the seasons to profit that tales, like paper, may be refolded and reformed. Haunted by means of songs and origami birds, this novel is a love letter to a backyard and a hymn to misplaced things.

"He is the chief of the boys who destroyed my city. Burned the homes. Killed the lads, the ladies, the kids. i'm the single survivor. "Waking to discover her domestic destroyed and herself within the custody of a small military, a tender Arboromine lady believes she is now the prisoner of its chief, Blair. not able to elucidate this wrong captivity as a result of a curse put upon her removal her skill to speak, she feels she has no selection yet to accompany Blair and his males again to his country.

After a stream out of the massive urban to flee heartbreak, photographer Katherine Thomas embraces lifestyles in a brand new city. together with her most sensible neighbors by way of her aspect, she's able to commence over and never glance again. in the course of her first significant exhibition at a sound artwork gallery, Kate expects the inevitable nerves, yet what she does not count on is assembly somebody who—with one glance—leaves her breathless.